How Entrepreneurs Can Boost Creativity to Solve Complex Problems
One of the problems with being an entrepreneur is this requirement to be creative, and to creatively solve really complex problems on a regular basis.
Most of our companies are small and growing - they’re innovative, they’re in new sectors, they’re cutting edge - and our ability to be creative and to see the future and to think of innovative new ways to do things in the moment is often very critical to our success.
One of the problems with creativity is it’s a bit like falling asleep - you can’t just bear down and squeeze a muscle and make it happen in the moment. If you’ve worked on creative teams and worked with people that are creative themselves in the past, you know that you can’t, as a leader of those teams, tell them to be creative faster or be creative right now. The more pressure you put on yourself to be more creative, often times the less creative you actually are - and maybe the more frustrated you are as well.
So, I challenge you:
Use a tool in the Founders First app called the Inspiration Breath, to build inspiration, to build energy, to build creativity, so we can creatively solve the problems and create the things that we need to create to build the future. The Inspiration Breath is all about that - it’s about laying the groundwork for creativity.
Instead of saying, “be creative now,” we instead say, “I’m going to create and open space for creativity to bloom, and I’m going to lay the mental groundwork for creativity” by using the Inspiration Breath process to open our mind and inspire ourselves to allow that creativity to happen. It doesn’t need to be on a timeline. We can use the Inspiration Breath tool, and we can just sit back and work on other things and wait for the creativity to arrive.
This is a great opportunity to think about how you foster those moments of creativity, how you create space for those moments of creativity that we rely on to be successful and to move the world forward as entrepreneurs.
The Inspiration Breath tool is one of many tools available in the Founders First mindstate tracking app for entrepreneurs. See all the tools and get personalized recommendations on how to best invest your time each day based on your current mindstate by trying the app free for 7 days.
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